Lorcan Murphy
@wasdmatter.bsky.social
Game Designer, Dad, Bibliophile, and Gamer. Lover of puns both witty and appalling. Abounding in songs and legends. He/them. Words and remarks are my own.
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There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
Elon Musk Cannot Get Away With This
If there is no red line around AI-generated sex abuse, then no line exists.
www.theatlantic.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:27 AM
There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.
Proposal: new administration creates the ICE investigation task force which is allowed to treat ICE agents exactly with the same discretion ICE agents use “until they can be cleared of potential wrongdoing”
They are not allowed to become agitated or refuse to comply under penalty of street shooting
They are not allowed to become agitated or refuse to comply under penalty of street shooting
January 13, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Proposal: new administration creates the ICE investigation task force which is allowed to treat ICE agents exactly with the same discretion ICE agents use “until they can be cleared of potential wrongdoing”
They are not allowed to become agitated or refuse to comply under penalty of street shooting
They are not allowed to become agitated or refuse to comply under penalty of street shooting
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
lithub.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.
January 5, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Plain and simple my politics is that nobody should be wealthy enough to make their insecurities my problem.
I don’t know that many people on here who know my birthday or would usually send me a gift. Still, it’s this EOY time:
I almost always ask people to make a donation. If I could be the excuse for some extra people to help Juno stay housed, I think that would be lovely.
Check out her articles, too.
I almost always ask people to make a donation. If I could be the excuse for some extra people to help Juno stay housed, I think that would be lovely.
Check out her articles, too.
December 30, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I don’t know that many people on here who know my birthday or would usually send me a gift. Still, it’s this EOY time:
I almost always ask people to make a donation. If I could be the excuse for some extra people to help Juno stay housed, I think that would be lovely.
Check out her articles, too.
I almost always ask people to make a donation. If I could be the excuse for some extra people to help Juno stay housed, I think that would be lovely.
Check out her articles, too.
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Weasely Dems think you can split the baby on this -- oh, just a little discrimination at the high school sports level, but not elsewhere! We defend trans kids here, or here, but not here.
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
December 17, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Weasely Dems think you can split the baby on this -- oh, just a little discrimination at the high school sports level, but not elsewhere! We defend trans kids here, or here, but not here.
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
RWers understand the dynamic better. If you open the door to hate, it doesn't stop in the first antechamber!
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My glasses just went *crunch* so I'm forced to buy new ones. If anyone wants to help me do this, I'd really appreciate it. paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels #mutualaid #transcrowdfund
Pay April Daniels using PayPal.Me
Go to paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.
paypal.me
December 17, 2025 at 4:55 AM
My glasses just went *crunch* so I'm forced to buy new ones. If anyone wants to help me do this, I'd really appreciate it. paypal.me/MsAprilDaniels #mutualaid #transcrowdfund
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While this article goes very rightly into the disrespect actors have faced in dubbing, underneath that is an entire ecosystem of abused and rushed freelancers doing the timecoding, adapting, directing, engineering, and mixing who Amazon also attempted to cut.
www.avclub.com/amazon-ai-an...
www.avclub.com/amazon-ai-an...
Amazon's AI anime dubbing fiasco reminds us that voice actors are severely undervalued
Amazon recently rolled out bad AI-generated dubs for several anime on Prime Video, demonstrating yet again that voice actors are undervalued.
www.avclub.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:22 AM
While this article goes very rightly into the disrespect actors have faced in dubbing, underneath that is an entire ecosystem of abused and rushed freelancers doing the timecoding, adapting, directing, engineering, and mixing who Amazon also attempted to cut.
www.avclub.com/amazon-ai-an...
www.avclub.com/amazon-ai-an...
Great thread here on one of the reasons I’m not a ‘Mayor Pete’ fan and thing that running him in National primaries is sort of an albatross. I know a lot of white midwesterners who feel good about Buttigieg, but I don’t.
Way back when, mayor Pete's reform-minded chief of police, Daryl Boykins, recorded some of his officers making vile racist statements. So Buttigieg fired... the police chief.🤡
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
Boykins was the 1st Black police chief in city history, and was building trust with Black folk.
But it gets worse...
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Great thread here on one of the reasons I’m not a ‘Mayor Pete’ fan and thing that running him in National primaries is sort of an albatross. I know a lot of white midwesterners who feel good about Buttigieg, but I don’t.
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Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
November 10, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage
I am no @maryrobinettekowal.com but I am greatly enjoying doing voices while reading @seananmcguire.bsky.social ‘s Rosemary and Rue to my youngest. Protean characters who change voice on a dime mid dialogue is FUN! I’d forgotten that character touch in recent books.
November 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I am no @maryrobinettekowal.com but I am greatly enjoying doing voices while reading @seananmcguire.bsky.social ‘s Rosemary and Rue to my youngest. Protean characters who change voice on a dime mid dialogue is FUN! I’d forgotten that character touch in recent books.
Really proud of my delightfully weird and creative teenager. “I designed a tattoo that my teacher put permanently on his body” is a pretty awesome achievement. www.instagram.com/reel/DPHOTlW...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Really proud of my delightfully weird and creative teenager. “I designed a tattoo that my teacher put permanently on his body” is a pretty awesome achievement. www.instagram.com/reel/DPHOTlW...
The mantis is our yard says have a nice day to Bluesky folks and @seananmcguire.bsky.social in particular.
October 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
The mantis is our yard says have a nice day to Bluesky folks and @seananmcguire.bsky.social in particular.
Tagging @seananmcguire.bsky.social because a mantis came to visit me by the garagetoday.
September 16, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Tagging @seananmcguire.bsky.social because a mantis came to visit me by the garagetoday.
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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I am *begging* people to look up the actual history of the Luddite movement with it being bandied about everywhere.
They weren't anti-tech, they were anti-exploitation, anti-Industrialist, pro-worker safety textile worker radicals who disabled factory machines that were maiming and killing workers.
They weren't anti-tech, they were anti-exploitation, anti-Industrialist, pro-worker safety textile worker radicals who disabled factory machines that were maiming and killing workers.
May 7, 2025 at 12:31 PM
I am *begging* people to look up the actual history of the Luddite movement with it being bandied about everywhere.
They weren't anti-tech, they were anti-exploitation, anti-Industrialist, pro-worker safety textile worker radicals who disabled factory machines that were maiming and killing workers.
They weren't anti-tech, they were anti-exploitation, anti-Industrialist, pro-worker safety textile worker radicals who disabled factory machines that were maiming and killing workers.
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Every time I get a journalist call for comment now I close my remarks with “members of a government that believes it is not bound by the rule of law are not entitled to its protection.”
March 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Every time I get a journalist call for comment now I close my remarks with “members of a government that believes it is not bound by the rule of law are not entitled to its protection.”
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Law only works if people pretend it exists. When we take Trump's word for it that he has the authority to do something it *gives* him that authority.
It is important that journalists stop reporting what Trump or Musk says as law.
It is important that journalists stop reporting what Trump or Musk says as law.
February 3, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Law only works if people pretend it exists. When we take Trump's word for it that he has the authority to do something it *gives* him that authority.
It is important that journalists stop reporting what Trump or Musk says as law.
It is important that journalists stop reporting what Trump or Musk says as law.
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I fully believe that there's a direct line you can draw from South Park popularizing the "oh it's okay to be racist/transphobic/antisemitic if you're targeting everyone equally" school of thought to the current Joe Rogan mindrot hellscape
i think the south park guys should be up against the wall for their crimes against humanity
January 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I fully believe that there's a direct line you can draw from South Park popularizing the "oh it's okay to be racist/transphobic/antisemitic if you're targeting everyone equally" school of thought to the current Joe Rogan mindrot hellscape
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I have been wondering why US leftists and liberals alike are so terrible at long term strategy lately. Then I remembered that we’re in this predicament because neither camp listens to Black people or respects our history in this country beyond lip service.
Abolition & civil rights took *centuries.*
Abolition & civil rights took *centuries.*
January 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I have been wondering why US leftists and liberals alike are so terrible at long term strategy lately. Then I remembered that we’re in this predicament because neither camp listens to Black people or respects our history in this country beyond lip service.
Abolition & civil rights took *centuries.*
Abolition & civil rights took *centuries.*
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With three days yet to go, it doesn't look like we're going to hit the next stretch goal--but wouldn't it be amazing if we did? www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
Wayward Children Vol. 1 - Illustrated Deluxe Omnibus
The first three entries in Seanan McGuire's Hugo Award-Winning Series come to Wraithmarked!
www.kickstarter.com
December 30, 2024 at 12:36 AM
With three days yet to go, it doesn't look like we're going to hit the next stretch goal--but wouldn't it be amazing if we did? www.kickstarter.com/projects/wra...
I’m a simple person. I see an opportunity to preorder a new Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti by @older.bsky.social and I do it.
December 23, 2024 at 2:31 AM
I’m a simple person. I see an opportunity to preorder a new Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti by @older.bsky.social and I do it.